# The Gambler

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky has 60,865 words.

## At a glance

1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

- **Author:** [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://musael.com/books/authors/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md) (1821–1881)
- **First published:** 1867
- **Original language:** Russian
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 60,865
- **Reading time:** 4 h 3 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 33 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 4 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 3 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 23 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

The Gambler is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2197

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 60,865
- Dialogue: 40% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 15.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2197 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223688
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambler_%28novel%29
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL166948W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2197

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-gambler